Rush-Copley plans medical complex

YORKVILLE — Yorkville's central location and a lack of nearby medical facilities helped lead to its selection for a new Rush-Copley medical complex.

The fast-growing far west suburb has been selected as home for a 45-acre campus that will begin with three buildings and could grow from there.

"You look at Kendall County and there's not any major medical services available; you have to leave the county," Yorkville Mayor Art Prochaska said Saturday at a meet-and-greet session with local residents. "I think as you see growth happening we need to start looking at getting extended medical services."

On Wednesday, the Yorkville Plan Commission was to consider a concept plan for the complex, on U.S. Highway 34. Initial plans would include an urgent care center, diagnostics facilities and physician offices.

Currently, the nearest hospitals are outside Kendall County, with full-service Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora and Valley West Community Hospital in Sandwich.

The medical project would join the latest wave of development in the Kendall County seat, now home to approximately 13,000 people, Yorkville is experiencing a wave of new development, with up to 17,000 new home sites already approved or in planning stages.

Commercial development is also accelerating with recent announcement of a Wal-Mart Super Center slated for construction later this year. It would join existing Menards and Jewel-Osco stores already in operation near U.S. 34 and Illinois Highway 47.